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title: Whatever happens there, whatever horrors may appear, mind your own b… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whatever happens there, whatever horrors may appear, mind your own business and go on reading, reading. Who acts: Whatever, horrors. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 8

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Whatever happens there, whatever horrors may appear, mind your own business and go on reading, reading.

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**Who acts:** Whatever, horrors · **What happens:** happen, appear, mind, go · **To what, where:** whatever, own business, reading

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whatever, horrors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:47:8
# text = Whatever happens there, whatever horrors may appear, mind your own business and go on reading, reading.
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
6	horrors	horror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | Whatever |  |  | there |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | may | horrors | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whatever=Theme |
| 3 | **mind** | infinitive | horrors *not said here* | your own business |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | horrors *not said here* |  |  | reading and reading |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on reading=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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